Soma vs Corporeal - What's the difference?
soma | corporeal |
(anatomy) The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.
(cytology) The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.
A ritual drink in ancient Vedic and Persian cultures, dating to common Indo-Iranian period.
* 2006 , Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation , Atlantic Books 2007, p. 82:
(by extension) any kind of intoxicating drug
Material; tangible; physical.
Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
* {{quote-book
, year=2000
, author=Margaret Atwood
, title=The Blind Assassin
, passage=She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.}}
(archaic) Corporal.
As a noun soma
is the whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.As a proper noun Soma
is the soma juice, capitalized usually when mentioned in personified, deified form.As an adjective corporeal is
material; tangible; physical.soma
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Etymology 1
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* somatic * somiteEtymology 2
From (etyl) . (wikipedia soma)Noun
(-)- Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma , he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.
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* Soma (alternative capitalization)See also
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* * ----corporeal
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Adjective
(en adjective)- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton
